Sean Baker
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171 appearances
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4 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
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I hope they do more because I think that the more people hear about not only what really goes on in government, but how it's being corrected, the more support Doge and Elon will get.
Yeah, well, the scary part is that they're not alone. There's probably 1,400 people who do various other tasks. And as a guy who, look, I'm all about tech support. I've learned that you just power things on and off. And that's the extent of my tech support. So I get it. I appreciate that. And I welcome it. But I think 1,400 is a bit excessive. And unfortunately, it's not.
Like I said, you go to HHS and they talk about having 40 chief information officers, 40. I mean, generally, when you're the chief, there's only one. But it just shows you the duplicity that exists. I think to your point, these individuals themselves did the effort a huge bonus by going out, the examples they gave, and then if we can add in the human element, the number of people who
you know, took a month to retire or who couldn't get a benefit or who had their money stolen. We're missing that third of the, of the piece.
I was thinking about this as you were saying a moment ago, you know, the, the, the young gentleman that, that was so cool, um, during the state of the union, president Trump, I think did better than any previous president highlighting his policies through those individuals in the gallery.
I think they almost need to embark on a very similar policy or a similar effort now, which is to go highlight individuals who've had struggles with the federal government, who haven't been able to retire, who were taken advantage of, who worked in the government but there was massive duplicity, et cetera, and start to literally – put faces to these problems.
And by the way, continue to roll out members of Doge who are finding these things, not just the dollar amount and the programs, but the overall crisis that exists. Because that's not, to Mark's point, it's not waste or fraud, the fact that you can't retire, that you can only retire 80,000 people. It just doesn't make sense.
In the military, we went to electronic medical records because literally you would have to carry your bulky medical record around with you wherever you went from assignment to assignment, station to station. And that's how we handled it until some genius realized, wow, we could just digitize this like everyone else. And it has made life a lot easier, right?
If we can start doing that within the federal government, it's a win-win for the government. It saves us money. It saves us time. It cuts down on bureaucracy. In fact, I'm sure as one of those gentlemen alluded to, The federal workers themselves would probably like to go that route as opposed to climbing up 10 file cabinets high to grab somebody's record from 1979.
How to retire.
Well, it's even worse than that, right? So that just laid out the stupid process and the amount of money we wasted on it. broadband. And people look at that and say, I had my own experience with like some tsetse fly in the backyard when they wouldn't let me put a shed up.
But then they also look and go, wait a second, isn't there a thing called Starlink that you could get for like eight bucks that you don't even need to do all that? Right. I mean, it's worse than even that example that Ezra Klein was going through. That's that's just if you wanted to, you know what it takes to lay down broadband and do this. But then you go, OK, that's stupid enough as it is.
But there's actually an alternative that's cost like no money. And that's linking up to Starlink, getting you Internet, not having to lay down all that. The mindlessness of everything is. that the federal government touches is unbelievable. And you're right. Most people get it and they just need to have it validated in terms of the absurdity.
Yeah. If she still has that reset button that she handed Sergei Lavrov, maybe she wants to take a do of on this op-ed and get a reset there. I mean, this is the woman who literally brought a reset button to try to make a joke over our relationship with Russia and wants to lecture somebody else about that. I really wouldn't go there.
Then to go into the classified issue after having kept all of your stuff on an unclassified server, wiping it with bleach blit. There are days when you go, you might want to sit this one out. This was one.
I literally feel like she's the one who let someone in her chat that shouldn't have gotten in and wrote that op-ed. And it was her. I know. I wish she could have at least blamed that on somebody and used the reset button. But it's just embarrassing how clueless... and how unselfaware she is of her own vulnerabilities. Because it's not just that.
When she does stuff like this, it means that Democrats have to answer for it. We get to talk about it. This is one where you literally say, I'll write it for you and then hand it off to somebody else or just sit this one out or don't send it into the New York Times. Write it in your journal or put it on your unclassified server and keep it for yourself.
Go ahead. But, but for, for, for just one thing we got, we lost in the conversation about signal gate was that the president and his team knocked out all of those hoothy targets. No lives were lost. Targets were hit. The Obama or the Biden administration lost 13 lives coming out of Afghanistan. She dealt with Benghazi.
If we want to talk about missions and diplomacy and actions, I'll take the Trump record over her record, over Biden's record any day of the week.
Dan, do you think your donors on the Dem side or House rank and file House members were excited to see that op ed in The New York Times this morning?
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